House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on NBC's 'Meet the Press' that the grandfathering clause in the Affordable Care Act only applied to people who had plans in 2010, before President Barack Obama signed the law.

Pelosi: If you had your plan in 2010, then you can keep it

By Reid J. Epstein

11/17/13 10:46 AM EST

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the grandfathering clause in the Affordable Care Act only applied to people who had plans in 2010, before President Barack Obama signed the law.

“If you had your plan before the enactment of the law in 2010, there is nothing in the law” that can remove it,” the California Democrat said on NBC's "Meet the Press." “You could (keep your plan), if you had your plan before the enactment of the law in 2010. Grandfathering is for those before” 2010.”

Pelosi, a chief architect of the law in the House, said Obama was correct to take responsibility for the troubled Obamacare rollout, but insisted there's nothing that needs to be fixed about the law.

“He is gracious and he is taking responsibility, but that doesn’t mean that there was anything in the law that said if you like what you had before 2010 you couldn’t keep it,” she said. “He took responsibility for the big picture… because that’s what people see.”